Re: pg data backup from vps

Replication is no backup.
Its more like a RAID.

That mean tubles that are delete on master by a mistake there are also
delete on slave.

correct me if i'am wrong.

Best regards,
basti

On 01.12.2017 21:10, Melvin Davidson wrote:
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> On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 3:07 PM, Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com
> <mailto:robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com>> wrote:
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> On 12/01/2017 12:56 PM, support-tiger wrote:
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> To diversify risk, we would like to have a daily or weekly data
> backup stored in another location besides the VPS service we are
> using - pg_dump is great for the backup but transferring a
> growing db across the internet to a local machine disk seems
> slow - how are others handling this with postgresql ? Thks.
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> So long as you're looking for more kinds of risk, why not stream the
> WAL files to another instance?
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>>how are others handling this with postgresql ?
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> One technique is to replicate to a slave on another server and do the
> pg_dump on the slave.
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> *Melvin Davidson*
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